Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

mentioned. It is also the number of Pn, meaning
'to come to an end', from the Egyptian atem, to
annihilate. This is the dragon of darkness whose
number is 5, being the formula of the female in
her lunar and nocturnal form.
Mathers calls attention to the fact that 'this
dragon is said by the author of the Royal Valley
to be the king of all the 'shells or 'demons', and
he suggests comparison with the beast in
Revelation. According to The Book of Concealed
Mystery 'the serpent (i.e. Leviathan) came upon
the woman, and formed in her a nucleus of
impurity, in order that he might make the
habitation evil. The nucleus of impurity is the
substance of which water is the symbol. Water
(i.e. blood) is the element attributed to the 23'd
Path.
It is this 'nucleus of impurity' which the Ade t
gathers about him for the work of the next (24 )
kala. It should be understood that the term
'nucleus of impurity' is a legacy of the Old Aeon
[The Aeon of Osiris of which the Judaistic cults,
including Christianity, are the last remaining
forms], when all that pertained to woman was
considered unwholesome. In terms of physiology
she was considered unclean, impure, and, in the
moral sphere, 'evil'. The substance thus vilified
was the water of life i.e. blood; and because its
manifestation in the female determined the
period of negation or non-openness to the male,
it was execrated by an all-male regime as
detestable, noisome, and wholly negative. In the
New Aeon of Horus, however, this water is the
menstruum of manifestation without which the
phenomenal universe would be an impossibility.
It is the means of incarnation as well as of
magical reification, and as such it is the prime
substance of all being, which is NOT (Nuit).
This Mystery is of a mystical order and can be
understood only when the nature of the Goddess
is fathomed in its fullness. [Grant, 1994, pp. 216-
2 18.1
RW seach. thought meditation. With different
pointing shach: depressed.
3'IT Near, close by; relation, relative, kinsman.
In 2 Samuel 19:42: "And all the men of Judah
answered the men of Israel, because the king is
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near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for
this matter? Have we eaten at all of the king's
cost? or hath he given us any gift? The "King" is
7% Melek (90) or Tiphareth, Judah is
connected with Leo, the Sun and alchemical
digestion (30), Israel means "he shall rule as
God." With different pointing qerub: nearness,
contact. see 1633.
?'I2 daybreak. Suggest the golden dawn of
illumination. With different pointing: herdsman.
Pl7
One who flings, strews, throws, tosses,
sprinkles (water of purification). With different
pointing zahrayqa: Name of a disjunctive
accent. K.D.L.C.K. (p.329) gives: sparsor.
ice, frost; baldness. With different pointing:
to make bald. Suggests uncovering the secret of
reality. See Key 9, where the ice is found at the
summit of the mountain.
'I= roaring, groaning. Isaiah 5:29: "Their
roaring shall be like a lion, and like the young-
lions that roar, and take hold on the prey and
carry it off; and none shall deliver it." Also in
Psalm 22:2: "0 my God, 1 call thee in the
daytime but you answer me not; and in the
nighttime you do not abide with me." And in Job
3:24: "For my sighing comes before I eat, and
my moaning are poured out like water." see 304,
306.
?a&' A precious stone; according to the
Septuagint, an agate. In Exodus 28: 19: "And the
third row [of the High Priest's breastplate or
Ephod] a jacinth (zircon), an agate, and an
amethyst."
XB' to wander, to go astray. Ezekiel 34:6: "My
sheep wandered through all the mountains, and
upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered
upon all the face of the earth, and none did
search or seek after them." Figuratively, to err in
Job 6:24: "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue:
and cause me to understand wherein I have
erred." To deviate from, in Proverbs 19:27:
"Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that
causes to deviate from the words of knowledge."
Also to stumble, to stagger (from drink) in Isaiah
28:7: "But they also have erred through wine,
and through strong drink are out of the way; the
priest and the prophet have stumbled through
strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in